1922 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1922.

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hydriomena? protrita^[2]	sp. nov	valid	Cockerell	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA	A geometrid moth	Hydriomena? protrita holotype

Archosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Alamosaurus^[4]	Valid taxon	Charles W. Gilmore		early Maastrichtian (late Edmontonian)	lower Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member)	United States	A titanosaur.
Dromaeosaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Matthew	Barnum Brown	middle Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A dromaeosaurid.
Erectopus^[6]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone)	early Albian	France	A metriacanthosaurid.
Parasaurolophus^[7]	Valid taxon	Parks		middle-late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation Fruitland Formation Kaiparowits Formation Kirtland Formation	Canada United States	A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Eurycleidus	Valid	Andrews		Hettangian-Sinemurian	Lower Lias	England	A rhomaleosaurid. A new genus for "Plesiosaurus" arcuatus Owen (1840)
Leptocleidus	Valid	Andrews		Barremian	Weald Clay	England	A leptocleidid.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dvinia	Valid
Eosimops	Valid
Inostrancevia	Valid
Oligokyphus	Valid
Venjukovia	Valid

References

↑ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). "A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado". American Museum Novitates 34: 1–2.
↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
↑ Gilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.
↑ Matthew, W.D. and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. Bull. 46: pp. 367-385.
↑ Huene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden im oberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.
↑ Parks, W.A. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 13: pp. 1-32.